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Flash Mob Robberies Are Changing the Way America Does Business
by tts-admin | Sep 21, 2023 | 7 comments
Robert Bridge – Strategic Review Sept 15, 2023
The future of shopping will no longer occur inside of shopping malls, boutiques, and business districts, Robert Bridge writes.
Many people have probably heard about the viral epidemic that is sweeping America, bringing mask-wearing back into fashion once again. No, it’s not Covid-19, at least not yet, but rather organized retail theft that is wreaking havoc on the nation’s heartland.
Back in the Soviet days, before mega malls and hyper-stores became prominent features across Russia’s 11 time zones, communist shoppers were forced to choose merchandise that was locked away behind display cases. A clerk would write down the price of each desired item and the shopper would take the piece of paper to the cashier, pay for the merchandise and then return to the salesperson with proof of purchase. Only then would the beetroot, bread and vodka be handed over. Times they are a changin’. Incredibly, and not a little ironically, the United States seems to be heading for such a grim, dystopian shopping experience.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed shoppers’ worst fears when they reported in a recent article, “stores have fewer workers than they used to, and are resorting to keeping more of their products locked up.” In modern America, the need to lock up merchandise is due to flash mob heists that are costing retailers millions of dollars each year, while threatening the very existence of the big-box and small-box merchandisers. The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that these incidents cost companies about $700,000 for every $1 billion in sales.
For the uninitiated, a flash mob heist is when a large gang of hoodlums, typically young and reckless, enter a store all at once and ‘smash-and-grab’ whatever merchandise they can before the police arrive on the scene, which almost never happens. What does happen is that employees and shoppers are left to stare on in disbelief as the mob beats a line of mass destruction around the store and back to the exits with as much items as their arms can carry. The reason this method has proven so popular is because the thieves are rarely caught; in the event that they are caught, liberal judges will set them free without punishment.
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Last month in Los Angeles, a group of over thirty men and women dressed in black and gray stormed the Nordstrom store at the Westfield Topanga Mall. The thieves knew what they were doing and made a beeline for the luxury handbags, clothing, and jewelry, shocking onlookers as they smashed glass display cases to grab handfuls of jewelry. In a matter of minutes much of the store was gutted. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, nearly $300,000 worth of merchandise was removed.
While previously a crime phenomenon relegated to California, flash mob crime sprees have sprung up around the nation. Chicago, for example, has put a new twist on the phenomenon, introducing something known as ‘flash mob robbery crews.’ These gangs travel around the city in caravans and rob pedestrians in broad daylight on the street, sometimes eight or more people at a time.
Thus, in one fell swoop, one of the glorious hallmarks of capitalism, when consumers could casually stroll along business districts and store aisles, hunting and gathering without the need for a middleman to tediously unlock cases, is beginning to look more like a page lifted from Das Kapital. Naturally, this brave new state of affairs is proving to be a nightmare for store owners as well.
In addition to having to fork over additional funds to lock down their products, while beefing up security to protect decent folks from thuggery, retailers also must cope with “the steepest annual wage growth since the 1980s,” according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Average wages in the retail sector have now risen to about $20.54 per hour, the report says. Not enough, however, to entice the young crooks to give up their life of crime for a 9-to-5 existence. There probably wouldn’t be jobs available for them anyways as retailers have had to give their staff a haircut, with employment figures below their pre-pandemic staffing levels.
“Retail sales workers fell 12% from 2019 to 2022 and stores like Macy’s and Kohl’s have lost as many as 20% of their staff,” Zerohedge reported. “Gap and Best Buy cut their staff by 25% and 22%, respectively. Only a handful of companies like Lululemon, Nike, T.J. Maxx and Costco have raised their employee headcounts.”
Not only does this make the shopping experience less enjoyable for everyone, it’s making it more time consuming, both for shoppers and employees alike. And if there is anything that overworked Americans lack these days it’s time.
According to OECD stats, U.S. employees work an average of 1,791 hours per year versus an OECD country average of 1,716. This comes out to be 442 more hours per year than German workers, 294 more hours per year than United Kingdom workers, 301 more hours per year than French workers, and 184 more hours per year than Japanese workers. To top it off, the United States is the only country in the world where corporations are not required by law to give their employees vacation time.
Needless to say, the average American worker cannot afford to waste precious time and nerves shopping under such unprecedented conditions. Truly, the future of shopping, at least in America, will no longer occur inside of shopping malls, boutiques, and business districts, but from the comfort, safety and anonymity of one’s own home. That’s a sad testimony to the state of capitalist affairs in the United States, and the byproduct of disastrous liberal policies that seeks to punish law enforcement while rewarding the mob.
"Who Do Americans Think They Are?" Charles Nenner Warns "It's Over, They Can't Rule The World Anymore"
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Oct 01, 2023
Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner has been warning his war cycles were turning up.
Nenner says, “It happens like clockwork in the second decade of a new century.”
Nenner says it’s a lot like the stock market running out of gas, and he warns,
“It’s like a stock market that is topping. First, the weak stocks go down. Then, the indexes are still holding up, and then the big ones go down.
Now, you see for instance, Apple also came down, but first, the small stocks came down. It’s already happening, but you only see the results suddenly when the whole thing crashes...
Americans seem to have no worries about the war that could be coming. I don’t want people to lose sleep, but the pact is forming.
It is China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. They are going against the United States that does not have a functional army anymore...
Who do the Americans think they are? It’s over, they can’t rule the world anymore. If they are going to fight all these countries, I don’t think it is going to end well.”
Does Nenner see the American Empire ending? Nenner says,
“I think it ended already, but we just don’t know it yet.
One of the signals of end of empire is bad education, which we have.
Another signal is the lifespan of people is shorter than for the people before.
What do you want me to say? It does not look good, does it?
Another signal is your children have it worse than the generation before.
So, there is a whole list of signals, and it points to the United States is in trouble...
I would be short America . . . and I would go long the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India China).
Nenner says the stock market is on its way to being “substantially lower, but not just yet.”
Nenner also sees the cycles for gold, silver, bonds and real estate all going lower from here, but gold and silver will be going back up longer term. The only thing Nenner likes right now are short-term Treasury bonds. The dollar will hold up for now, but it is headed much lower in the not-so-distant future. Nenner also likes energy, but it is cycling down at the moment.
Nenner says, “Inflation goes up and down” and warns, “Inflation is starting another up trend.”
This round of inflation is probably going to be very painful for the common man.
There is much more in the 41-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with renowned cycle analyst and financial expert Charles Nenner for 9.30.23.
"Who Do Americans Think They Are?" Charles Nenner Warns "It's Over, They Can't Rule The World Anymore" | ZeroHedge
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China Is Actively Preparing For War With The United States
March 10, 2024 by Michael
At a time when their economy is really struggling, the Chinese are increasing military spending and ramping up preparations for war. But who is China preparing to fight a war with? Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious. Yes, the border dispute between India and China could erupt into something significant, but that is not likely. The only other opponent that the Chinese would be fighting a major war with would be the United States. And right now, Chinese shipyards are churning out military vessels at a pace that the U.S. simply cannot match…
The US cannot match the pace of building in the shipyards of Shanghai, which have already turned out two new aircraft carriers with a third expected to begin sea trials soon.
The latest vessel, the Fujian, features catapults to launch heavy, fixed-wing aircraft with immense bomb payloads. These shipyards are also building a new type of amphibious assault vessel, and many roll-on, roll-off ferries, which could have a dual purpose – transporting cars in peacetime, and armoured assault vehicles in the event of an attack on a neighbour, such as Taiwan.
Of even greater concern is the vast network of tunnels that the Chinese have been constructing.
We are being told that this network of tunnels makes the Hamas tunnels under Gaza “look like holes scooped by children in a sandpit”…
While the West has been scaling back its military spending in favour of welfare and healthcare, China has been building artificial islands as naval bases and airfields. Less obvious but more ominous, it has also been digging a vast network of tunnels and bunkers that make the Hamas warrens in Gaza look like holes scooped by children in a sandpit.
The Chinese tunnels stretch for hundreds of miles and their plans are so closely guarded that Western intelligence agencies have little idea what is down there.
Domestic spies in the pay of the West, who have attempted to smuggle out information, have been caught and executed.
Nobody knows why China has been putting so much effort into these tunnels.
Are they anticipating that vast numbers of Chinese will need to shelter underground during an apocalyptic conflict with the United States?
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